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eCS 2.0 installation summary:

- Machine came with THREE PRIMARY partitions, which makes
it impossible to install eCS out of the box. Installer warns for partitions
that extend beyond the end of the disk ...

- Made full-disk image backup to a USB attached external disk
- Removed the Lenove Service/Recovery partition
- Resized the Windows-7 partition from 280 to about 170 Gb using the Windows-7 native resize facility
- Added BootManager at the end of the disk
- Created 2Gb type 0x07 partition for eCS
- Installed, using default values, to this partition
- Changed 800x600 desktop resolution to 1680x1050
- Fixed Bootmanager info to make it show proper names instead of "--> LVM"
- Added several eCS JFS data partitions
- Aligned the end of the Windows partition to eCS cylinder boundaries.
(to get rid of an annoying 5Mb 'freespace' between Windows and eCS)

The disk now looks like (DFSQUERY output):

+++++++++
Id D A Dr Type Form Label info LVM vol,part B-cyl E-cyl Size MiB
-- - - -- ---- ---- ----------- ------------- ----- ----- --------
01 1 Free 0 0 1.0
01 1 P 07 NTFS SYSTEM_DRV W7system,Win- 0 162 1200.0
02 1 P 07 NTFS Windows7_OS Windows7,Win7 162 23342 171136.0
03 1 L 07 NTFS Development Developm,Tild 23343 28760 40000.0
04 1 E: L 06 FAT E-data Exchange,FAT1 28761 28866 782.5
05 1 * G: L 07 JFS ECS2_0 eCS2.0,ecs-bo 28867 29168 2229.6
06 1 H: L 07 JFS Hdata Sources,H-dat 29169 31442 16788.5
07 1 J: L 07 JFS Jdata Support,J-dat 31443 33850 17777.8
08 1 U: L 07 JFS Udata UnixGcc,U-dat 33851 37566 27434.5
09 1 Free 37567 41343 27884.9
09 1 > P 0a BMGR I13Xoption OS2-DFSe,Boot 41344 41344 7.4
> = Active, * = Bootable, r = Removable, R = Removable+Active
+++++++++

The 27Gb freespace is reserved for a Suse Linux installation.

Rest of eCS customization postponed until a working network driver is available.

Note:
The BootManager did show some quirks:

1) It does not seem to find the volume/partition names in the LVM info,
and falls back to the classic Bootmanager info areas, which show
the "--> LVM" placeholder by default. Used DFSee to change those to
the proper name. Still need to find out what goes wrong there ...

2) The dual primary partition for Windows causes a Windows boot failure
when started through Bootmanager because one of them gets 'hidden'
This is a known problem, and an eCS fix is being worked on ...

In the mean time I use DFSee to switch the 'ACTIVE' partition between
the BootManager (which starts eCS with a 1 second menu timeout)
and Windows-7, using two small commandfiles:

On eCS, to switch to Windows (1st partition on disk must be ACTIVE):

DFSOS2.EXE -l- -w- -B- -Q startable 1 multi#setboot -b

On Windows, this must be 'Run as administrator' to work,
and set the LAST partition on disknumber 1 ACTIVE:

DFSWIN.EXE -l- -w- -B- -Q startable $_lastpart[1] multi#setboot -b

Both will prompt you before actually rebooting :-)

Regards, JvW